Re: [PATCH 00/17] De-recursion for the 'tests' subdirectory.

From:

Jim Meyering

Subject:

Re: [PATCH 00/17] De-recursion for the 'tests' subdirectory.

Date:

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:38:47 +0200

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 09/04/2012 12:58 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> ...
>>>> I still haven't reviewed your changes, but in using them I did notice
>>>> a missing dependency:
>>>>
>>>> I ran this command to run the single test:
>>>>
>>>> $ make tests/rm/v-slash.log
>>>> PASS: tests/rm/v-slash.log
>>>>
>>> The above usage is not actually supported Automake interface (for one thing,
>>> it won't honour $(check_PROGRAMS), nor $(BUILT_SOURCES)). To run a subset
>>> of tests, you should do this:
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation, but running the commands you suggest generates
>> over 200 hundreds of lines of output,
>>
> Even this command?
>
> $ make check TESTS="tests/rm/v-slash" RECHECK_LOGS=
>
> That would be a bug :-(
Or perhaps my running the command from another branch.
I'll investigate shortly.